What if we made a practice of gilding one another with the gold of genuine praise and mindful appreciation?

 

When alpenglow light gilds the mundane grey of the peaks in red, orange and gold, I'm reminded that we are called to do something similar with each other. It is easy to focus on the faults of another. After all, every one of us has them. But what if we instead made a practice of revealing each person in their best light? What if we lit them up with the gold of genuine praise and mindful appreciation in a way that allowed them to come alive to their own divine gifts and traits? Wouldn't the world be transformed in the process?

Photo: Alpenglow on Nokhu Crags, Never Summer Range, CO; December 27, 2013

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